Session 1 — Thursday, 28 May 2026

Time: 18:00–20:00 HKT · 12:00–14:00 Paris

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Audience: Teachers + HKU staff and students + HKJCCT representatives

Purpose: Get familiar with the ALDW framework and exemplar items.

• Learn about the Adapted Learning in the Digital World — introduction to the framework and learning progression (30 min).
• See an example of the ALDW assessment — overview of released exemplar items (15 min).
• Experience items as a student to build empathy — working through items to build understanding of the learner perspective (20 min).
• Mapping items to the competency model and identifying evidence — identifying what evidence a well-designed item should elicit (40 min).
• What you bring to ALDW! — discussion of local context and teacher expertise (15 min).

Session 2 — Saturday, 30 May 2026

Time: 13:00–17:00 HKT · 07:00–11:00 Paris

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Audience: Teachers + HKU staff and students + HKJCCT representatives Purpose: Equip the team with the knowledge and tools needed to support teachers in Session 3 and to make high-level decisions about content, format, and task difficulty.

• Learn about the Creator Tools: demonstration — guided walkthrough of the OECD customisers (30 min).
• Follow along: Creator Tools and task types — hands-on practice, including the distinction between task types and difficulty drivers (30 min).
• Q&A (15 min).
• Draft your first items and item specifications — structured drafting exercise with feedback (1 hr).
• Applying the scoring guidelines — how scoring rules connect to task design decisions (15 min).

Session 3 — Saturday, 6 June 2026

Time: 13:00–17:00 HKT · 07:00–11:00 Paris

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Audience: Teachers + HKU staff and students + HKJCCT representatives

• Recreate existing items — practice building known items in the customisers to build confidence with the tools (30 min).
• Build your items in the customisers — participants create the items drafted in Session 2; HKU team circulates to support (1 hr 45 min).
• Q&A (30 min).
• Next steps — closing remarks and follow-up actions (15 min).

For queries, please contact the HKU ALDW project team.

This workshop draws on the PISA Adapted Learning in the Digital World (ALDW) framework developed by the OECD. The University of Hong Kong gratefully acknowledges and respects the OECD’s intellectual contribution to this project.